Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glance, Akbet Jaber looks like any provincial Arab town. Snack bars display turnips pickled in pink marinade. Butchers hawk fatty, flyspecked mutton hanging from great hooks in the ceilings of their stalls. On closer inspection, Akbet Jaber is a town noticeable for the absence of two things: trees and tradesmen's signs. The refugees have refused to plant trees because it might indicate a willingness to settle permanently. And the potter, the shoemaker, the shopkeeper are reluctant to advertise for fear of losing their U.N. doles and, in the process, appearing better off than Arab propagandists are at pains...